§ Mr. WHYTEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he can state the number of dentists employed by the Canadian Expeditionary Force in their professional capacity?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI understand that there are 201 dentists employed with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
§ Mr. WHYTEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether, despite an explicit pledge to the contrary, dentists are still being taken for ordinary combatant service and the nation and the Army thus deprived of a kind of medical assistance of which they stand in the greatest need?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI am not aware of any pledge of the nature suggested, but, on the contrary, I stated in reply to a question on the 4th March last that the dental needs of the Army were not such that all qualified dentists serving in the Army can be used for their professional 189W work. I am afraid it is not possible to give an undertaking that no qualified dentists will be posted to combatant units in the first instance, but should any of these be subsequently required for dental service in the Army, they will be reposted.
§ Mr. WHYTEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War how many of the 640 dentists holding commissions in the Royal Army Medical Corps are serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONAt the present time ninety-six dentists are so employed, but the dental service in France is being reorganised and the numbers of dentists considerably increased.